Medicinal Plant Garden

The Medicinal Plant Garden at Southern Cross University is many things:

a botanic garden integrated with the campus landscape

an essential "living laboratory" for teaching natural medicine

a community resource providing access for the disabled

a university showpiece

a conservation resource

a research resource

Also, the garden is more than just the plantings. It consists of the:

Circular Garden

Ethnobotany Garden

Essential Oil Garden

Medicinal Plant Herbarium

Australian Native Food & Medicine Garden

The development of the garden required an extensive consultation process including dialogue with academics, technical staff, disability consultants, horticulturalists, indigenous peoples, artists and historians.

The setting next to the lake was chosen for practical and aesthetic reasons. The School of Health and Human Sciences is located in Z Block, next to the lake and garden, allowing ready access for teaching.

Visiting the Garden

Southern Cross University is located in Lismore, northern New South Wales, Australia, 730 kilometres north of Sydney. You will find the gardens on Rifle Range Road, East Lismore, next to Z-Block (School of Health and Human Sciences) on the University campus. Visit any time.

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Southern Cross University acknowledges and pays respect to the ancestors, Elders and descendants of the Lands upon which we meet and study.We are mindful that within and without the concrete and steel of buildings these Lands always were and always will be Aboriginal Land.